Self Reflection

          I learned a lot about myself this year. Working at Nashoba taught me that there is a way to work in the ski industry and still be able to ski. After talking with people involved in the ski industry, I got turned away from getting throughly involved in the ski industry, because most people end up not skiing that much in the end. My internship, and Matt's job proved that you can have a job in the ski industry and still ski a lot. I also learned that I would make a great ski bum if I had a job working at a mountain. I had to get up very early on weekends in order to make it to Nashoba in time for the events, but I had no problem with it because I knew I would be skiing, and that was absolutely worth waking up early for. When I got there, I was ready to work. Regardless of how tired I may have been, I was willing to do the job at hand. It was all for the sake of skiing.
          From working on my senior project, I learned that when working on a project independently, I need to stay on top of my work, and push myself. When there is no direct, strong driving force, pushing me to do the work that needs to be done, there is a good chance that I will ignore it. In the future, I need to physically break up my work into sections of time, and stick to my plan. It will take time and training, but with dedication, I think that I will be successful in completing independent projects more timely, and more efficiently. If I could change one thing about my entire senior project, I would have spread out my work more so that I would have been able to do more of it, and collect more data. Doing that would have allowed me to do more skiing in the end. The academic work I would have put into it would have paid off in more time on the slopes, and a less stress to complete my project on time.